Ezekiel S. Candler, Jr.

Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Jr. ( born January 18, 1862 in Belleville, Hamilton County, Florida; † December 18, 1944 in Corinth, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1921 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ezekiel Candler was a member of a famous political family. His uncle Milton sat 1875-1879 as well as for the State of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives as his cousin Allen, who belonged to the Congress as a delegate 1883-1891. The latter was also from 1898 to 1902 still Governor of Georgia.

Already in 1870 came Ezekiel Candler with his parents in the Tishomingo County in Mississippi. There he attended the public schools and the Iuka Male Academy. After studying law at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and his 1881 was admitted to the bar he began in Iuka to work in his new profession. Politically, Candler member of the Democratic Party. In 1884, he became its chairman in Tishomingo County. In 1887 he moved to Corinth, Mississippi, where he continued to work as a lawyer. Also in Alcorn County, he was on the board of the Democratic Party.

1900 Candler in the first district of Mississippi was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Mills Allen on March 4, 1901. After he was confirmed in each case in the following nine elections, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1921 a total of ten legislative periods in Congress. During his last term he was chairman of the committee which dealt with the use of alcoholic beverages. During this time, the Prohibition Act came into force.

For the elections of 1920, Candler was not nominated by his party for another term in Congress. After his retirement from the House of Representatives, he again worked as a lawyer. From 1933 to 1937 he was mayor of the city of Corinth. After he retired from politics. Ezekiel Candler died in December 1944 and was buried in Corinth.